EDGE gives Yoshi's New Island 4/10 [62 on Metacritic]

[archbrix]

Mr Khan said:

archbrix said:

Mr Khan said:

Yeah, the Yoshi games have never been critical darlings. Even "Island" was disliked in its day.

Really?  I remember a magazine back then (Gamefan, I think) giving Yoshi's Island game of the year despite all of the hype around the newly released Playstation and Saturn.

I wasn't gaming then (also i was 5), though my historical recollections told me it was just overshadowed by DKC.

The first DKC was the year before SMW2, but yeah, Yoshi never got the mass accolades it truly deserved between arriving so late in the SNES' life and launching around the same time as DKC2 (which was nowhere near as good as Yoshi, IMO).

Also @bolded, way to make a guy feel old.